Advertising device for curtains.



M. KYLE.

ADVERTISING DEVICE Pon CURTAINS.

APPLICATION YILED JULY 30,1912.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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MORISON KYLE, OF CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA.

ADVERTSING DEVICE FOR CURTAINS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lec. i5, 191 4.

Application filed July 30, 1912. Serial No. 712,381.

To all fic/icm. it may concern Be it known that I, Morrison KYLE, of the town of Calgary, in the Province of "Llberta, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices 'for Curtains, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in advertising devices 'for theater curtains and the like and the object of the invention is to devise an advertising device of this class in which an advertisement may be interchanged with other advertisements and thus prevent any one advertisement growing over familiar to the eye of the public and it consists essentially of a curtain having an open ing therein and a pocket secured to or forming part of the curtain and located preferably behind the opening and designed to receive a card on which is printed suitable advertising matter to be displayed through the opening in the curtain as hereinafter more particularly explained by the following speciiication.

Figure l, is a front elevation oit a curtain showing my advertising device adapted thereto. Fig. 2, is a vertical section through that portion of the curtain in which my advertising device is located. Fig. 3, is a plan section through Fig. 2. Fig. Li, is a perspective detail of the pocket device formed in the curtain for receiving the advertising card and with the card removed. Fig. 5, is a similar view to Fig. Ll looking at the rcverse side.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each ligure.

A is a curtain of any suitable form on which is depicted any suitable design.

B and B are slits formed in the curtain parallel to each other so as to form a pocket 2, one end of which is closed by a reinforcing strip B3 extending over the slit B. The opposite end of the pocket is left open so as to provide a receiving opening B'i into which an advertising card C is slipped.

is a flap secured to the body of the pocket to form a closure for the open end of the pocket, the iap being connected to the back of the curtain by suitable means such as buttons or dome fasteners B6.

lThe front vface of the card is provided with any suitable advertising matter. It will be readily seen that at suitable intervals of time new cards may be slipped into the pocket to take the place oi the old ones and thus prevent any one advertisement becoming too familiar to the eye of the public and thus lose its essential advertising quality. The front :tace of the pocket is provided with rein forcing strips .D which overlap the edge of the pocket at the top and bottom so as to help in retaining the card when inserted in the pocket in place. It will also be readily seen that in the form of advertising such as I have described iewer advertisements need be placed on the curtain at one time and thus prevent spoiling the artistic quality of the curtain and yet at the same time as many advertisements as required may be displayed during any given period of time by interchanging the cards. It will also be readily seen that any person wishing to rent advertising space on a curtain may do so for a short period of time which is impossible where thc advertisements are permanently painted upon the curtain.

It will thus be seen that the curtain can be painted as one complete and harmonious scene with a certain number of pockets provided at points best adapted to the general design of the curtain, the pockets, of course, being painted over in front like the balance of the curtain and would, therefore, not be noticed when an advertising card is not inserted therein and not as under the present system leaving a number of blank spaces which remain eye sores to the eyes of the public during the whole season that the curtain is used. lt will be readily understood that this form of advertising is particularly adaptable to theat xr curtains on which street scenes are depicted. ln such scenes, pockets may be formed behind the openings to represent the windows in the various buildings of which the picture is composed and the cards which arc slipped into these pockets may be provided with advertising matter which would naturally appear upon the store window. In tact-` the card itself may be made to represent the window which is slipped into the opening forming the window 'frame and thus provide an advertisement which would be placed in the picture in its natural location.

lWhat I claim as my invention is.

l. In an advertising device for curtains and the like, a curtain having a pocket formed therein by two pa `allel slits, a covering strip secured to the curtain for covering one of the slits, and a Card designed to be slipped into the pocket so formed and Containing advertising matter designed to be displayed through the open face of the pocket, as and for the purpose specified.

2. n an advertising device for curtains and 'the like, t Curtain having 2L pocket formed therein by vertical slits in the eurtein, and a reinforcing strip extending over one slit, a reinforcing overlapping freine secured to the front of the Curtain, and a Gerd designed to be slipped through the open slit and into the pocket formed by the reinforcing strip and to have its edges retained between the edges of the overlapping frame and the body of the curtain, as and for the purpose speoied.

3. ln an advertising device for curtains vand the like, a curtain having an opening therein, a pocket formed behind the opening in the curtain designed to receive suitable advertisements, a Closing flap extending from the pocket, and detachable securing Ineens for securing the flap to the back of the Curtain, as and for the purpose specified.

MORISON KYLE.

jWitnesses R. l KYLE, J. A. BURR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C. 

